Town that left two people dead just the latest reason new yorkers say they re fed up with crime. it happened not far from times square at a makeshift recording studio. police are looking for multiple suspects. new yorkers meanwhile are looking for a solution. registered voters surveyed overwhelmingly pick crime as the number one issue affecting the city. 49% cited crime. a second distant affordable housing at 15% and homelessness at 12%. eric adams who took office in january got thumbs down from most new yorkers on how he is handling crime. 54% say they disapprove. when it comes to the subways 43% said during daylight hours they feel very unsafe or somewhat unsafe. but that number shot up to 61% when asked about subway travel in the evening. one thing almost all new yorkers agree on is putting more cops in the subway. 86% say they support the idea.
Have been plagued with crime now for the last, oh, year, year and a half, and people are not going to be comforted by this type of event. subway travel is now about half of what it was before the pandemic. and this is not going to help get people back on the train. andy, the past hour, we have a name. we got a name. frank james. and a photo of the man that the nypd is describing as a person of interest in this investigation. what do you think that investigators are focusing on as they re trying to locate him inhow are they trying to find him? well, john, there s a massive effort going on right now to locate frarnk james. any address they have that is remotely associated with this guy is probably under surveillance or about to be by fbi agents and local police and all kinds of different jurisdictions. they are coursing through
we were wondering about the subway travel. they are moving the trains out. said it would take them 8 hours to get them out of harm s way in case water went down into the subway systems. and one of the problems is getting everybody back to work. open up the transportation systems to allow the folks that work to get back into manhattan. bill: airport travel still not open until monday. martha: surprising. bill: maybe the workers trying to get the transportation to get to the airport itself. no travel until monday. martha: initially they said in monday things be close sod at least it looks like they will open up monday morning. a new warning today about a health hazard from the storm. see that right there? that is sea foam washing up flying in the wind. what is in it and what you need to know about it. martha: it s yucky is the first thing you need to know about it. we ll be back with more on